Four Mexican Police Officers Murdered

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Assailants shot dead four police officers in the western Mexican city of Aguascalientes on Thursday, the latest in a wave of slayings of law enforcement officers across Mexico.

The city police officers had arrived at the scene of a car crash when they encountered several men unloading firearms out of a vehicle and tried to arrest them, Aguascalientes state attorney general Xavier Gonzalez told a news conference.

A second vehicle arrived at the scene with about eight armed men, who fired on the officers, Gonzalez said. Three died immediately and the fourth died later in a hospital, he said.

Last week, more than a dozen armed men killed five agents and two secretaries in simultaneous attacks on two offices of the state attorney general in Acapulco.